Animal-poke



P. BARNEY.

ANIMAL POKE- APPLICATION FILED MAR. 8. 1920.

1,373,701 Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

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PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP BARNEY, or noLLAnn, MANITOBA, CANADA.

BNIMAL-POKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

Application filed March 8, 1920. Serial No. 364,107.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PHILIP Banner, of the town of Dollard, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Animal- Pokes, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in animal pokes, particularly cow pokes, and the general object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed, inexpensive and durable poke which can be readily at tached to the head of the animal and will effectively prevent the animal from breaking through fences and such like.

A further object is to construct the article so that it can be manufactured in one size and can be readily adjusted to suit the particular animal to which it is to be attached.

A still further object is to arrange the nos tril grips so that they can be quickly caught in the nostrils of the animal and do not require clamping.

With the above objects in View the inven tion consists essentially in the arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which 2-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the appliance on a cows head.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same removed from the head.

F 3 is a front view.

Fig. f is an enlarged detailed sectional view at if-4: Fig. 2.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The poke comprises three main parts, a neck part 1, a hooked part 2 and a nose part 3. These parts are made of comparatively stout wire bent in the peculiar manner hereinafter described.

The neck part is formed by bending a single piece of wire centrally on itself to provide a comparatively small loop 4c and two more or less parallel coils 5 and 6 adjoining the loop and then spreading the ends of the wire in a U-shaped manner and terminating in eyes 7 and S. This neck part is adapted to span the neck of the animal, being placed thereon from above in a location behind the ears.

The eyes carry a strap 9 fitted with a buckle 10, the strap being adapted to pass around the throat of the animal and secure the neck part in place. The hooked part is carried by the neck part and is formed from a single piece of wire bent centrally on itself to provide an elongated substantially L- shaped loop or head rest 11 and two divergmg prongs 12 and 18 which terminate in forwardly extending hooks 1 1 and 15. The prongs. are prevented from spreading by a spiral coil 16 of wire which has one spiral 16 somewhat larger than the rest to provide an eye for attaching the nose piece as later described. I

In actual practice the hooked part is attached to the head part prior to bending the ends of the. wire to form the head rest and hooks as at this time it is only necessary to insert the ends of the wire through the coils 5 and 6 to. effect the fastening with the neck part.

After the hooked part is bent into its final form it will be obvious that a tight joint is made between these two parts. The nose part is made from two wires, an upper fastening wire 17 and a lower specially bent wire 18. The wire 18 is bent centrally on itself to provide an elongated loop 19 and two substantially U-shaped nose grips 20 and 21. .Here it is to be noticed that after the loop 19 is formed one of the wires is coiled around the other twice as shown at 22 to prevent the nose grips from being pulled apart and that the nose grips are actually formed in the ends of the wire beyond the coil by bending the ends of the wire out and. in and then connecting the two extremities by hooking them together as shown at 23.

During the processes of formation of the nose piece rubber guards 2 1 and 25 are placed on the nose grips, such preventing the irritation of the animals nostrils when in use. The attaching wire 17 is connected to the upper end of the loop 19 by an eye 17 formed at the end of the wire.

From the above construction of the nose piece it will be seen that the nose grips can be opened up by catching the tips and forcibly spreading them apart against the spring action of the wire and that when released they will close in and grip the nostrils.

Actually the two sides of the loop 19 form spring arms which resist turning when the nose grips are swung out.

When this device is to be applied on the animals head the neck'part is strapped around the neck as hereinbefore explained with the head rest 11 extending forwardly and lying on the crown of the head and the prong extending upwardly and the hooks ahead. One then inserts the wire 17 in the eye 16 and after having placed the nose grips in the nostrils, bends the upper end of the wire 17 backwardly on itself as shown best in Fig. 2, thus completing the fastening.

Customarily a poke would be fitted to an animals head and always used with that animal sothat one, after havin fitted the wire 17 to the length of the head Would actually cut 05 the tail end and make the connection to the eye 16 a fixed one, such as by forming a closed eye in the upper end of the wire 17. I, however, make these wires 17 straight so that when one'buys the poke in the store he can be sure he can adjust it to fit the particular animal on which he wishes to put it.

When the poke is in use itwill stop an animal from breaking through a fence or such like as the instant the hooked ends of the prongs catch the fence the snout of the animal is abruptly pulled up which effectively serves to prevent the animal from breaking through.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In an animal poke, a neck part formed from a single piece of wire bent to span the neck and provided at its extremities with eyes and centrally of its length with a pair of parallel coils, a hooked part formed from a single piece of wire attached to the neck part by passing the ends of the wire through the coils, said hooked part being bent to provide a head rest lying approximately at right angles to the neck part and a pair of upwardly extending diverging prongs positioned approximately at'right angles to the neck part, a coil of wire connecting the bases of the prongs together and a nose part detachably connected to the latter coil.

'2. In an animal poke, a neck part formed from a single piece of wire bent to span the neck and provided at its extremities with eyes and centrally of its length with a pair right angles to the neck part and a pair of upwardly extending diverging prongs positioned approximately at right angles to the neck part, a coil of wire connecting the bases otthe prongs together and a nose part formed from wire having the upper end detachably connected to the latter coil and the lower end formed into a pair of nose grips.

3. In ananimal poke, a nose part comprising a fastening wire terminating at one end in an eye and a nose wire attached .to the fastening wire and threading through the eye, said nose wire having the, ends thereof terminating in connected eyes and formed at the ends into a pair of nose grips and with one of the wires coiled around the other adjacent the nose grips.

4. In an animal poke, a nose part comprising a fastening wire terminating at one end in an eye and a nose wire presenting an elongated loop looped through the eye, a coil connecting the ends of the wire and a pair of nose grips beyond the coil. 7 5. In an animal poke, a nose part comprising a fastenin wire terminating at one end in an eye and a nose wire presenting an elongated loop looped through the eye, a coil connecting theends of thewire and a pair of nose grips beyond the coil, the said nose grips being formed by bending the ends of the wire beyond the coil and connecting the extremities of the'wire by forming mating eyes at the extremities.

Signed atWinnipeg, this 20th day of February 1920. r r r V PHILIP BARNEY.

In the presence of.-

GERALD S. ROXBURGH, M. WAKEFIELD. 

